Direction-post.



E. DAVIE-S.

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'county of Worcester,

EDWARD DAVIES, or wrinr'rmeron, NEAR STOURBRILDGE, ENGLAND.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 21, 1915.

Application filed April 30, 1914. Serial No. 835,479.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD DAvms, subject of the King of Great Britain,residing at VVhittington, near Stourbridge, in the England, have1nven'ted. a new and useful Improvement in Direction-Posts; and I- dohereby declare that the following description of my said invention,taken in connection with the accompanying sheets of drawings, forms afull, clear, and exact specification, WhlCh w ll enable those skilled inthe art to which 1t appertains to make and use the same This inventionrelates to directlon posts and arms of the kind erected on highways andthe like toindicate localities, mileages and the like, the object of theinvention being to provide a post and arms which can be easily andconveniently adjusted to suit local requirements.

With this object in view the invention consists in the novelconstruction and combinations of parts described in the accompanyingspecification, illustrated in the drawings and more particularly pointedout in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings :-Figure 1 is a perspective cordance withmy invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of some of the parts of the signpost shown in Fig. 1, the lowermost being shown in section. Fig. 2showsthe same parts as Fig. 2 but assembled. Fig. 3 is an elevation ofone of the arm-carrying bosses. Fig. 4 is an elevation at right-anglesto Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a plan of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a fragmentary elevationof a modified form of arm-carrying boss. Fig. 7 is a plan of the lowerof the fragments shown in Fig. 6.

In the embodiment of this invention shown in Figs. 1-5, the post proper1 is preferably constructed as a casting with the lower part 2 formed asan anchoring base which is embedded in the earth, the upper part of thepost having an axial hole 3 and a transverse perforation 4: throughwhich a bolt 5 passes.

Within the axial hole 3 is located a cylindrical tube 6 which projectssome distance above the top of the post 1 and is perforated with anumber of transverse perforations 7 spaced apart at certain distancesfor the purpose to be explained hereinafter. The upper end of the tube 6has a single transverse hole 8 suitable for a pin 9, the bolt 10 view ofa sign post in ac-' being inserted in the tube 6 and the pin 9 beingthen passed into the hole 8 and into the eye 11 of the eyebolt 10.

gxArranged on the cylindrical tube6 are the superposed centers 12 of theindicating arms 13, each of thesaid arm-carrying centers 12 having aplate-like part 14. tangential to the periphery of the center 12 and ofchannel cross-section to accommodate a wood or other arm 13 on which thename of the town or village is put.

Suitable bolts-16 or the like pass through the wood arm 13 and thetangential part 14. to secure the same together. The depth of'eachcenter 12 is greater than the depth of the channel-section part 14 tofacilitate reading of the sign when in position on the post. The portion15 of the center 12 which projects below the channel-section part 14 maybe less than the corresponding part 16 which projects above the same, sothat a different spacing of the direction arms 13 may be efiected byturning the centers 12 the opposite way up. The top face and the bottomface of each center 12 are formed with radial tooth-like serrations 17so that when two centers 12 are pressedvtogether in an axial direction,the teeth and depressions mutually engage and lock rigidly together. Theupper face 18 of the post proper is provided with similar facialteeth-like serrations as is the lower face 19 of a terminal cap 20 whichis slid on to the central tube 6 above the uppermost of the arms 13. Theouter end of the bolt 10 receives'a nut 21, Fig. 1, by which the lockingcap 20, arms 13 and post 1 may be firmly clamped together.

Any number of arms within the limits of the apparatus can be fixed inposition without any alteration to the structure other than adjustingthe height of the central tube 6 above the top of the post casting 1.This adjustment can be readily eifected by placing the tube 6 in thepost 1 to the required height and then passing the bolt 5 through one ofthe series of holes 7 before-mentioned and through the transverse hole 4in the post proper 1. The arm-carrying centers 12 are slid on to thecentral tube 6, the terminal locking cap 20 placed in position in asimilar manner and the top nut 21 screwed up, the facial teeth on thecenters 12, post 1 and cap 20 insuring a substantial and rigidconnection of the arms 13 to the post 1.

In a modification of the means for locking together the arm-carryingcenters I2, shown in Fig. 6, the serrations are dispensed with and theengaging surfaces made 'fiat except at one part at which a semi-cylin-,

drical projection 22 is formed. The recess into which this projection 22fits is made by filing so that the relative angular position of thecenters 12 can be fixed to. suit any particular locality. V Y

: What I claim as my invention -i-s;:-

A direction post comprising in combination a hollow standard, an upperwperforated tubular extension adapted to slide 'in' the standard, meansfor maintaining said extension at predetermined extended positions,

a plurality of superposed arm carrying centers slidably mounted on saidextension, --the lower .faceof the lowermost center adustablyinterlocking with the 'upper face of the standard, and the lower face of:each' of the othercenters adju'stably inter-locking Copies ofthis/patent may be obtained for with the upper face of the center nextbelow it, a cross-pin in the upper end of said tubular extension, an eyebolt carried by said cross-pin and having a screw threaded 25 portionextending above the upper end of said tubular extension, a cap slidablymounted on said extension, with its lower face in- :terlocking'with theupper face of the upperlnost center, a nut on the screw threaded 30end'of said eye :holt, a-ndbearing upon the upper :face' of said cap, to:maintain said centers in vplace,-ancl indicating arm's :carried by saidcenters and tangential thereto.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my rnarne to this specificationinkthe presence fi-ve cents :each, by'addressing the Commissioner:ofiBatents,

Washington, 1). 0.

